Andrew asks about the homemade wood preservative:
Hi,
I found your post about the homemade wood treatment very informative! You mentioned at the end that you would post a recipe that didn’t use the antifreeze. Maybe I missed it, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. I’d be interested in that preservative, though… We will be building an Aspen cabin this spring, and need to give the logs a borate treatment once they’re peeled to avoid the black sapstain… I would prefer not to boil down the glycol in my kitchen, though, even though they call it “non-toxic”…. kwim?
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Thanks,
Andrew
Hello Andrew –
I’ll have to go back and check — I thought I had posted that — regardless it is simply the boric acid and water –









